Gearing Up for the Finale (Fun Fun Silly Willy Style)

Alrighty kids. No deep insightful gearing up for the finale here. Here are some fun, silly and interesting videos, articles and other thingy’s all compiled for your enjoyment on the day before the finale. Oh and fine, if you want to get serious, here’s Doc Jensens Friday post. But beware, apparently there be spoilers in it!

Let’s begin with Michael Emerson demonstrates how to say everyday phrases ominously (This, and some other videos I cannot imbed, just click the linky )

Next, The Entire series of Lost reenacted by Cats in 1 minute.

Muppets Audition for Lost’s Smoke Monster!

Does the Swedish Chef now have all of the answers?

Article time!

Here’s CNN Entertainment reporter Frisky’s 8 Things I Will NOT Miss About Lost

After six seasons, “Lost” finally comes to an end this Sunday night in a two-and-a-half hour series finale episode.

Tuesday is the last hour-long episode — titled “What They Died For” — before the finale (“The End”), and it’s got me thinking about all the things I’ll miss when the show goes off the air: Sawyer’s nicknames and the books he inspired me to add to my reading list; the love stories of Desmond and Penny; cool couples Nadia and Sayid, and Jin and Sun; Ben’s diabolical delivery and wit; and most of all, I’ll miss the mystery.

But, there are also some things that I will not miss about “Lost.” Things that I will be happy to see vacate my life when the show is over. Here are eight things I’ll be happy to wave goodbye to when “Lost” is off the TV map.

1. “Lost”-Induced Anxiety

Whether it’s the paranoid panic of realizing you may have forgotten to set the DVR to record a new episode or the anxiety that comes from a particularly mind-boggling episode, “Lost” is not a relaxing TV show to watch. I’m looking forward to spending my evenings with a blissfully stress-free mind via “The Bachelorette” and “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.”

2. Drive Shaft

Charlie Pace’s band had one hit song before the heroin addict crashed on the island with the rest of Oceanic 815. Never hearing “You All Everybody” again can’t come soon enough.

3. The Costumes

And by that we mean, the same dirty, sweaty clothes the Losties have been wearing since day one, save the occasional flashback or flash-forward episode. Needless to say, those rank pit stains have killed my desire for Smell-O-Vision.

4. Kate’s Wishy-Washiness

Which is it, Kate Austin? Jack or Sawyer? Following directions or running off on your own to “save the day”? Season after season, episode after episode, Kate’s antics have grated on my last nerve. I won’t miss a single thing about her.

5. Being Confused

I am one of those “Lost” fans who are withholding final judgment on this season and the show in general until the screen goes dark at the end of the final episode. I want to believe that the writers are leading us to a place where all of our questions will be answered, that everything — the Smoke Monster, the polar bears, the women who can’t get pregnant, the numbers, the everything — will come together in one harmonious “A-HA!” moment. As time ticks down, even I must concede that that is looking less and less likely and once it’s all over, many questions will probably remain. I will not miss the feeling of being even more confused week after week.

6. Heated Fights With Friends

I have a pal who is just as nuts about “Lost” as I am, completely engaged in the storyline and the characters. Like me, he cried when Jin, Sun, and Sayid died on the submarine explosion. However, about 50 percent of the time, we disagree on whether or not a particular episode was amazing or totally awful. Our disagreements are not uncommon among “Lost” fans — frankly, the show often walks a fine line between brilliant and totally over-the-top terrible. When this friend of mine doesn’t see the genius in a particular episode or is irate about the direction the show is taking, while I am busy championing it, I wonder if he’s a complete moron and whether our friendship can survive it.

7. Doc Jensen’s Re-Caps

The day after a new episode of “Lost” airs, Entertainment Weekly official Lost-o-phile, Jeff Jensen, posts his recap of the episode. You could read and decipher Dante’s Inferno — written in the original Latin — faster than one of Jensen’s meaty yet stream-of-consciousness-style assessments. At the end of the day, I have learned more about “Lost” from Jensen than anyone else, but I, for one, am excited to have my Wednesday nights back, so I can go out on the prowl like a normal 30-something woman instead of poised in front of my laptop with Jensen as my date.

***Iamtheisland Interruption! While I agree that Doc’s articles have gotten a little nutso this past season, they’ve been absolutely KEY in the creation and writing of OMGWTFLOST.com. So suck it Frisky.

8. Claire

Like Kate Austin, I despise almost everything about Claire. I want to be clear that my distaste for the two most prominent female characters on “Lost” is not because I don’t enjoy female protagonists. “Lost” has had, and has killed off, many fantastic heroines and I continue to miss them — Ana Lucia, Libby, Juliet, to name a few — immensely. But Claire’s hay-hair, nasal whining about “Charlie” and “the baaaaby,” not to mention that scary voodoo doll she’s carried around this season, will not be missed at all.

So, let’s hear it, fellow “Lost” fans — what will you miss about the show? And what won’t you miss at all?

Next is The End Is Near, a Newsweek piece on what should and should not be answered during the finale. (Click the link)

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